RECORD ID

3522

FIGURE

Spirit

NARRATIVE

Spirit-Person Narratives

PRINTED LABEL

spirit

PUBLICATION

The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 2; R. Brough Smyth

AUTHOR

Not specified

two extremes of life — old age and infancy ; but assert that there were two forms of death — the Moo-char-moo-roop (literally, "take the spirit") and the Boor-kur- moo-rar (or, "break the kidney-fat"). The first of these terms, Moo-char- moo-roop, applied only to those who had been removed by a very sudden death without any apparently previous illness. The spirits of those who died in this way were said to have gone to the West {Whar-ree-wkin-knam-mytch-oo), and would re-appear at some future time brighter and more perfect beings. Under this belief, mothers, whose infants had died in the way here described, have been known to.

Terminology belongs to the cited public source. Its presence in the archive is not verification of the reported claim.

1. 01spirit in A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia1842 · Internet Archive
2. 02spirit in A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia1842 · Internet Archive
3. 03spirit in A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia1842 · Internet Archive
4. 04spirit in A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia1842 · Internet Archive
5. 05spirit in How did the Natives of Australia become Acquainted with the Demigods and Daemonia, and with the Superstitions of the Ancient Races?1854 · Internet Archive
6. 06spirit in How did the Natives of Australia become Acquainted with the Demigods and Daemonia, and with the Superstitions of the Ancient Races?1854 · Internet Archive